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But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book." [ 3 ] Markham was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight (a westbound flight requires more endurance, fuel, and time than the eastward journey, because the craft must ...
A tale from West with the Night was excerpted and illustrated by Don Brown as a children's book, The Good Lion. In 1988, CBS aired the biographical miniseries, Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun, with Stefanie Powers in the title role. Both West with the Night and Splendid Outcast appeared on the New York Times best-seller list of hardcover ...
In this respect, James Light, in his book Violence, Dreams, and Dostoevsky: The Art of Nathanael West, suggests that The Day of the Locust falls in with a motif in West's fiction; the exposure of hopeful narratives in modern American culture as frauds. [13] As some critics point out, West's novel was a radical challenge to modernist literature.
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House .
Robert D. Kaplan's influential book Balkan Ghosts (1994) is an homage to West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), which he calls "this century's greatest travel book." [ 67 ] In February 2006, BBC broadcast a radio version of West's novel The Fountain Overflows , dramatized by Robin Brook, in six 55-minute installments.
The Book of Night Women is a 2009 novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. The book was first published in hardback on February 19, 2009, by Riverhead Books . The story follows Lilith, a young woman born into slavery, who challenges the boundaries of what is expected of her.
West-Running Brook is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, written in 1923 and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1928, containing woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes. The title of the poem that the volume is named by has been called very significant.
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